#punish

One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#between #happened #might #moral #punishing

A good deed never goes unpunished. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#goes #good #good deed #never #unpunished

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#less #more #often #order #policing

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#contest #devolved #freeing #guilty #injured

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#case #commit #conduct #crime #doctrine

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#ceases #conception #god #his #itself

As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bull #bull market #crime #goes #great

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished. ↗

— Bob Filner

#bring #congress #criminals #ensure #families

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished. ↗

— Edward Coke

#consent #equally #punished #shall #those

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. ↗

— John Conyers

#age #based #being #civil #civil rights